[Sciserver-users] SciServer Compute Image Update

[Jonas Haase]

Dear MPE SciServer Users

I would like to announce that I just have released a set of new Compute Images for the SciServer. 
This means that every _new_ compute container you start from now on has a updated collection of software installed.

- The main change to the previous images is that the new baseline operating system is Ubuntu 20.04 instead of Ubuntu 18.
- The installed Python version has been updated to 3.9 and R to version 4.2.1
- The scientific python module collections have been updated to Anaconda 2022.10 and SciPy 1.9 respectively.
- A large number of additional modules and software has been installed. You can see a partial list in the Readme file in 
 https://sciserver.mpe.mpg.de/dashboard/files/datavolumes/4
 and can see all installed python modules and their version with "conda list”
- In the Xray images the HE software collections have been updated to HEASoft  6.31.1, CIAO 4.15, eSASS 20211214.0.5.
- In addition the CIAO installation has been changed to be part of a conda environment instead of a separate software installation.
  The Xray and eSASS images have additional buttons buttons and command line instructions to run with the CIAO kernel. 
  Please note that this environment does not come with all the same modules installed as the base environment.
- Lastly there is now a a easier way to modify your environment and have it stick between containers: In a interactive shell the bash setup will attempt to source the file 
  Storage/[user]/persistent/bashrc if it exists. So you can add your preferred shell configuration to that file. 
 
I hope you will find everything working as intended. If you encounter any issues, please let me know - It is at times challenging to get all the various software installations to play nicely with each other.

Kind regards
Jonas

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Jonas Haase
Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics (MPE)
Giessenbachstr. 1, 85748 Garching, Germany
X5 1.3.08
+49 89 30000 3706

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